COMMUNITY
JAVA TECH
Fletcher catches up
with his staff during a
hallway mini-meeting; a
Choice staffer crushes his
ping-pong opponent (an
Oracle rep) while Fletcher
looks on.
midrange Quality Inns and Comfort Suites
to full-service Cambria Suites and the boutique and historical hotels that are part of the
Ascend Collection.
Like others in the lodging industry, Choice’s
IT infrastructure is a hodgepodge of decades-
old legacy systems, some based on the first
computerized reservation system—originally
designed for the airline industry 25 years
ago—mixed in with newer systems based on
proprietary languages and protocols and some
more-recent technologies, such as C, Java,
and even a little .NET. Its core is its central
reservation system (CRS), which stores up-to-
date information about Choice’s inventory of
rooms, room rates, and availability. Layered on
top are applications and processes that push
that information out to its Website, reserva-
tion call center, and third-party distributors.
ABOUT US
PEAK PERFORMANCE
Choice’s Google Interface service
handles up to 750,000 transactions
a day
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